..."The Tyger" and "The Lamb" by William Blake, written in 1794 included both of these poems in his collection Songs of Innocence and Song of Experience, takes readers on a journey of faith. Through a cycle of unanswered questions, William Blake motivates the readers to question God. These two poems are meant to be interpreted in a comparison and contrast. They share two different perspectives, those being innocence and experience. To Blake, innocence is not better than experience. Both states have their good and bad sides. "The Tyger" is basically the negative reciprocal of "The Lamb" because it challenges God. The main question that Blake is asking in the two poems is that how can the same God make such a vicious animal and also make such an innocent animal. God created all creatures great and small, and he could not have created two creatures more different from each other than the lamb and the tiger. The lamb and the tiger are just vehicles for Blake to express what he feels happens to people as they grow, develop and eventually become perverted by the world around them. In the poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," William Blake uses symbolism, figurative language, and regiloious questioning to advance or evoke the theme that God can create good and bad creatures. "The Lamb" is from Songs of Innocence. In choosing a lamb for the subject, Blake immediately establishes this poem of innocence as a religious. "The lamb is made by Christ and is an obvious symbol of the mild and gentle...
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...Lamb to the slaughter, a short story by Roald Dahl is very interesting and mysterious. The story is about a loving and caring woman, named Mary, who is asked for a divorce by her husband. Ironically, she kills her husband with a leg of lamb, and makes up a story to protect her baby, who she is pregnant with. Police Officials and detectives come, but they are unable to find the murderer, or the weapon. Irony impacts this story because it creates the suspense and adds a twist/turn to the story. Roald Dahl uses Irony in this short story for that reason. First, Mary’s husband, Patrick, comes home from work, asks for a divorce, and will not cooperate with Mary. Since she is caring and loving, Mary goes downstairs and grabs a leg of lamb to cook for dinner. Mary Maloney walks up behind her husband and “ without any pause,” she swings the big, frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brings it down as hard as she can on the back of his head. This is Ironic because before she murdered her husband, she loved him, cared for him, and did everything for him. “She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself,” (Dahl, 1). This establishes situational irony because it...
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...Both passages,"Lamb to the Slaughter"and "The Necklace" have very good irony. In my opinion,"Lamb to the Slaughter",has better irony then "The Necklace",because the wife hid her evidence very good when she killed her husband. The reason the wife killed her husband was, because she was six months pregnant and her husband wanted to divorce with her and in the 1918's it was rare for someone to divorce. The wife didn't want to deal with it so she got a lamb leg and hit his own husband in the head and killed him. In the passage "The Necklace", it had some good irony in it. One of the best irony in the story was at the end when the main character lost her friends necklace, she had to buy a new one and it took her 10 years to buy the necklace...
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...the Lamb The Adoration of the Lamb is Jan Van Eyck’s greatest accomplishments of a Renaissance painter. It was painted with oils in the third decade of the 15th century (Glover). This painting definitely has a lot going on in it. The painting is consisted of twelve panels where the outside panels can either be closed or open. There are many spiritual aspects in the painting; from the Holy family, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus; to Adam, Eve, and plenty of saints. The representation of these earthly and otherworldly figures shows the aspects of this world and the next. The lower middle piece physically reflects this with the horizon as the divider between the worlds. The saints and other peoples on the ground represent the present and our actual life, the dove in the sky and the rays from the sun represent the heavens and the afterlife (Glover). The lower middle panel is the most intricate piece in this painting. The Lamb, located on top of the altar, carries a large amount of significance which this paper will go into detail. Christ is represented twice in this painting. Christ is shown as the Celebrating Priest in the upper level seated on the throne with his crown (Philip 61). The second representation of Christ is the Lamb of God being sacrificed on the altar. Its position on the hill indicates how the Host is elevated at the consecration. It serves a double purpose in that it shows the importance of the lamb being above everyone else (Philip 62). The sacrifice of the lamb echoes...
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...silence of the lambs Hannibal Lecter – psychiatrist, psychopath, purveyor of ghastly canapés – is an ambiguous presence in Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon (1981) and its sequels. Rarely the outright villain, he tends to play the role of a genteel monster with whom the reader is, scandalously, invited to sympathise. In The Silence of the Lambs, the best of Harris’s novels, the FBI requires Lecter’s insight in order to catch serial killer Buffalo Bill, who enjoys parading about in the flayed skins of his victims. Clarice Starling, a pretty trainee agent, is sent to visit Lecter in prison and charm him into offering help. Clarice Starling, still doing her years at the training academy and a part of the Bureau's behavioural sciences unit, is called upon to participate in one of the goriest, strangest cases the Bureau has ever seen. She is sent to talk to Hannibal Lecter, an ex-psychologist who is currently residing in a high security mental asylum. Lecter, having been sentenced to a whole life in an asylum due to his cannibalistic tendencies, establishes an odd sort of relationship with Starling. They work together, to track the movements and the thoughts of a fast-moving psychopath. A strange partnership emerges as secrets from Starling's past are revealed. It isn't the fact that there's a man capable of murder on the loose that scares her, it's the man who's safe behind bars that does. There's your run-of-the-mill crime novels, and then there's The Silence of the Lambs. Reading the...
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...The trailer for the Silence of the Lambs sets the genre of the film as a thriller using various codes and conventions throughout the trailer and the quick establishment of the main character Starling who is a police officer. The use of a voice over allows the audience to know what is occurring and what the protagonist will have to face. The voice over explains severely murder have been occurring, the introduction of Starling allows he audience to have hope that she will be able to solve the murders. Starling is presented as being brave, telling the audience she “does not scare easily”. “At first the trailer begins with a non diegetic sound of a low tone soundtrack that eventually turns into a metal music with screams, this indicates to the audience that the rest of the trailer will be a dark heavy tale. The...
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...Jonathan Demme’s extraordinary film, The Silence of the Lambs, was released in 1991. Buffalo Bill is a serial killer, killing women and partially skinning them. FBI Jack Crawford recruits trainee Clarice Starling to get information about Buffalo Bill. She is a top student at the FBI’s training academy and Crawford wants her to interview and use Dr. Hannibal Lector as a mentor to help catch the serial killer. Lector is a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a powerful psychopath who is serving life in the penitentiary for murder and cannibalism. Over time Lector guides her closer and closer in the direction of catching Buffalo Bill. I will be examining the opening sequence of this film, which contains eighteen different shots. 1. The opening,...
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...SHEEP RECORDS FOR 1r4 Agricultural Experiment Station Oregon State College Corvallis Station Circular 182 December, 1949 FOREWORD Lamb and wool sales grossed the Oregon farmer approximately $12,000,000 in 1948. The trend is to smaller flocks on more farms. Sheep numbers in the nation are at an all time low, but on January 1, 1949 Oregon showed 738,000 sheep on hand or a 5,000 head increase over a year ago. It remains now for the sheep to become more efficient as a means of marketing our grassa chief resource. Keeping records can help the stockman spot those animals that are making him money and those losing him money. This publication tells of a simple record system that can be used in any flock. A workable set of records will net the grower more dollars each year and help him build his flock into a more profitable enterprise. Dean and Director Sheep Records for Greater Profits By W. G. CADMTJS Research Assistant, Animal Husbandry MEET effectively the growing competition from other TO livestock and to maintain a favorable economic positionclasses of in the face of falling prices, the sheep producer must select and maintain breeding animals which will return a satisfactory profit. Animals which do no more than pay their way must be eliminated from the flock. Far too often the sheep breeder tends to single out a few outstanding ewes or rams and rate his flock on the basis of these few individuals. He overlooks those ewes and rams which...
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...and allowing the reader to connect with some type of meaning. In spite of this, the way each particular author uses his certain stylistic approach is completely different and unique than the other one’s. Blake connects with his readers through personal experience and the supernatural. Shakespeare on the other hand, likes for his readers to change their viewpoint throughout his works. They may start out feeling, or imagining, on thing, and then completely change their thought process towards the end. Even though both of these authors have different techniques towards their stylistic approach, their work is still intriguing and unique for every reader. “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, written by William Blake, both illustrate how the mood can influence the theme and how it is perceived to the audience. While reading “The Lamb” the reader is given a tender and caring perspective as the speaker...
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...because he, too, had lots of questions he couldn't answer. The first question hints that this poem is not really about nature despite its title, '...What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?' The 'immortal hand 'can only refer to God, and this gives the poem a religious theme that is continued through the remaining questions. Asking so many questions of God - especially the final question, which is a twist on the final line of stanza one, ('What immortal hand or eye / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?') seems to suggest that Blake cannot understand how God could create an animal that is at one and the same time both beautiful and fearful, even evil. At the end of stanza five, it is easy to imagine the tiger killing the Lamb, and, with the...
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...so horrific creature. In his poem William Blake says, “On what wings dare he aspire? What hand dare seize the fire” (line 6-7)? The tiger has both a physical and moral meaning. The Tyger represents both the beauty and evil someone can contain at once in the world. The main question that arises in the poem is if the same being that made the lamb which represents goodness, also made the tiger which would represent evil. The poem allows us to assume that this powerful being can make a creature as evil as a Tyger, so he can also make one that represents good like the lamb. The poem talks about the good and evil in the earth when the author uses “skies” representing heaven and then “distant deeps” to represent hell. The series of questions allow the reader to assume only a powerful being (god) could have the courage to create such a beast like the Tyger. The author is successful in getting his message to the reader. The Tyger has a double meaning in the story to most the Tyger would seem as a beautiful but powerful creature that could inflict a lot of harm if it wanted to, but Blake makes the Tyger seem as the evil in the world, and the lamb as the good. Blake goes on to say that the same powerful being that made the Tyger has the power to also create one that is good. The way the poem is composed of six quatrains in rhymed couplets help build meaning to the poem. The simplicity of the poem helps build up the questions of the one main central idea. The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn...
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...As an online William Blake fan, I receive at least one request per month from students asked to interpret William Blake's wonderful lyric, "The Tyger." The contrast with "The Lamb" is obvious. ("Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?" The answer is God, who became incarnate as Jesus the Lamb.) "The Tyger" asks, "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" And the answer is, "Yes, God made the Tyger too." To understand "The Tyger" fully, you need to know Blake's symbols. One of the central themes in his major works is that of the Creator as a blacksmith. This is both God the Creator (personified in Blake's myth as Los) and Blake himself (again with Los as his alter-ego.) Blake identified God's creative process with the work of an artist. And it is art that brings creation to its fulfillment -- by showing the world as it is, by sharpening perception, by giving form to ideas. Blake's story of creation differs from the Genesis account. The familiar world was created only after a cosmic catastrophe. When the life of the spirit was reduced to a sea of atoms, the Creator set a limit below which it could not deteriorate farther, and began creating the world of nature. The longer books that Blake wrote describe Los's creation of animals and people within the world of nature. One particularly powerful passage in "Milton" describes Los's family weaving the bodies of each unborn child. In believing that creation followed a cosmic catastrophe and a fall of spiritual...
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...Part I: One could argue that Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women was one of the earliest feminist philosophical works that set the standard for the feminist phenomenon we know today. In A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Wollstonecraft states that it is indeed not a normal incidence that instated the variances between man and woman, but it is civilization and convention that introduced these differences. Furthermore, she positions herself to say that it is the way men are taught differently than women that causes contrasting principles and rifts between sexes. The following quote from A Vindication of the Rights of Women perfectly showcases my notions made in the previous sentence: “One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the book written on this subject by men who, considering females rather as women than human creatures…” (152). In Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we are offered a somewhat accurate look into a post-Wollstonecraft world. The two Pride & Prejudice characters that best reflect Wollstonecraft’s feminist demarcations are Lydia Bennet and Mr. Wickham. As the film progresses, Lydia, the youngest of the Bennet sisters, becomes acquainted with Mr. Wickham and begins to display the very essence of what Wollstonecraft was trying to rebut in A Vindication of the Rights of Women. As Lydia’s infatuation with Mr. Wickham intensifies, she begins to act unsophisticated...
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...At first glance, William Blake’s selection of poetry in Songs of Innocence and Experience seems to be vastly different than the satirical masterpiece that is Voltaire’s Candide. However, despite being very different works of literature, both of the pieces were created in the same time period, and in the same political and international climate (Blake and Lincoln). Both of the literary works are concerned with similar themes, and with the changing political and social climate in western Europe during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. The theme of innocence and the pain of acquiring knowledge is a common thread throughout both of the pieces, and reflect a an era of growing socio-political awareness that emphasized fact and reason over blind faith and mindless servitude. During the Middle Ages, Western Europe went through a religious transformation that led to a type of society that emphasized leading a virtuous life in the way the Bible instructs. One of the fundamental tenets of Christianity is the idea of original sin: that is, the original sin that Eve committed when she ate from the Tree of Knowledge, and convinced Adam to do the same, leading to their exile from the Garden of Eden. Knowledge was long considered dangerous by the Catholic Church, and the type and amount of information that the average person could attain was very limited. However, that all began to change during the Renaissance, which was a re-awakening of arts and sciences in Western Europe; the Renaissance...
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...The Lamb The poem begins with the question, “Little Lamb, who made thee?” The speaker, a child, asks the lamb about its origins: how it came into being, how it acquired its particular manner of feeding, its “clothing” of wool, its “tender voice.” In the next stanza, the speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own question: the lamb was made by one who “calls himself a Lamb,” one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and the lamb. The poem ends with the child bestowing a blessing on the lamb. The poem is a child’s song, in the form of a question and answer. The first stanza is rural and descriptive, while the second focuses on abstract spiritual matters and contains explanation and analogy. The child’s question is both naive and profound. The question (“who made thee?”) is a simple one, and yet the child is also tapping into the deep and timeless questions that all human beings have, about their own origins and the nature of creation. Yet by answering his own question, the child converts it into a rhetorical one, thus counteracting the initial spontaneous sense of the poem. The answer is presented as a puzzle or riddle, and even though it is an easy one child’s play, this also contributes to an underlying sense of ironic knowingness in the poem. The child’s answer, however, reveals his confidence in his simple Christian faith and his innocent acceptance of its teachings. The lamb of course symbolizes Jesus. The traditional image of Jesus as a lamb underscores...
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